User:Esterson

My name is Allen Esterson. My academic qualification is a degree in physics from University College, London. For reasons of no importance here, my main area of expertise is now Sigmund Freud, and more specifically the seduction theory episode, on which I have published several articles in history of psychology/psychiatry journals.

Publications:

Esterson, A. (1993). Seductive Mirage: An Exploration of the Work of Sigmund Freud, Chicago, Ill: Open Court.

Esterson, A. (1996). Grünbaum’s Tally Argument. History of the Human Sciences, 9 (1), pp. 43-57. http://www.esterson.org/Grunbaum_Tally_Argument.htm

Esterson, A. (1998). Jeffrey Masson and Freud’s seduction theory: a new fable based on old myths. History of the Human Sciences, 11 (1), pp. 1-21. http://www.esterson.org/Masson_and_Freuds_seduction_theory.htm

Esterson, A. (2001). The mythologizing of psychoanalytic history: deception and self deception in Freud’s accounts of the seduction theory episode. History of Psychiatry, Vol. 12, Part 3, September 2001, pp. 329-352. http://www.esterson.org/Mythologizing_psychoanalytic_history.htm

Esterson, A. (2002). The myth of Freud’s ostracism by the medical community in 1896-1905: Jeffrey Masson’s assault on truth. History of Psychology, 5 (2), pp. 115-134. http://www.esterson.org/Myth_of_Freuds_ostracism.htm

Esterson, A. (2003). Freud’s theories of repression and memory: A critique of Freud and False Memory Syndrome by Phil Mollon. The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice. Fall-Winter. Vol. 2., No. 2, pp. 147-162. http://www.srmhp.org/0202/review-01.html

My other main interest is in the contentions that Einstein's first wife, Mileva Marić, made substantive contributions to his scientific work. You can read about my entry into this sphere here: http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2006/12/einsteins_wife_the_relative_motion_of_facts.html

Commendations by Einstein specialists on my articles on Mileva Marić can be read here: http://www.esterson.org/Critique_Einsteins_Wife.htm

My numerous articles on this subject, including critiques of the contentions of the major proponents of the view that Mileva Marić contributed to, or co-authored, Einstein's celebrated 1905 papers, can be seen here: http://www.esterson.org/

The historian and Einstein specialist, Alberto A. Martínez, has a webpage on this subject, including a link to my website articles: https://webspace.utexas.edu/aam829/1/m/Maric.html